Rating: 1 Tree
A-Z , directed by Sally Arthur, is a cut out animation that uses a large amount of “text”, words and letters, through out. It shows a woman attempting to catalog names, in the attempt to make a street map of London. While the animation was acceptable, its style was very graphical, and appeared more like a commercial. It did not have much that stood out, and tended in the end to be forgettable amongst the other films involved.
Rating: 1 Tree
And Life Went On directed by Maryam Mohajer is a very abstract look at a bomb raid in Tehran, Iran. It is in fact so abstract a times we are unable to comprehend the images that are being shown. The style was that of a children’s drawing containing messy lines, distressed colors, and at times unintelligible. The drawing of a child dressed in a red shirt stands out, but is not enough to pull me in. It has a rather loud ending, but to me this was a dud.
